What a great way to spend Boxing Day - certainly not at the sales but wandering around Hyde Park enjoying their Winter Wonderland carnival. We met Chelsea and Nick at East Croydon station Saturday morning about 11. Well it was almost 12 before we managed to find each other - that's the problem when you don't have any form of communication apart from wifi. But all ended well - we found each other. Needless to say I now have a UK number as does Rach. Winter Wond...

After several false starts thix morning - mostly because we decided we weren't warm enough and needed to revisit our rooms and add some layers - we successfully used the train from West Brompton to Tower Hill so visit the Tower of London. Spent a good couple of hours there visiting the Bloody Tower, White Tower, The Chapel and of course, viewing the Crown Jewels - all very impressive. We caught the end of a Yeoman's tour and it was very informative - and entert...

After several false starts thix morning - mostly because we decided we weren't warm enough and needed to revisit our rooms and add some layers - we successfully used the train from West Brompton to Tower Hill so visit the Tower of London. Spent a good couple of hours there visiting the Bloody Tower, White Tower, The Chapel and of course, viewing the Crown Jewels - all very impressive. We caught the end of a Yeoman's tour and it was very informative - and entert...